Tens of millions of Indonesians head to the polls on Wednesday (Feb 15) in local elections across the Muslim-majority country, with bitter feuding over the powerful post of Jakarta governor stoking political and religious tensions.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on Muslim countries to lead international action over the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims.
An Egyptian court has added former football star Mohamed Aboutrika to the authorities' terror list, his lawyer said Tuesday (Jan 17), based on suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
Philippine authorities said on Thursday they had captured 34 inmates who escaped in the nation’s biggest jailbreak but more than 110 remained on the run in vast farmlands and isolated villages of the nation’s strife-torn south.
Armed men with links to Muslim rebels stormed a prison early on Wednesday (Jan 4) in the southern Philippines, killing a guard and freeing more than 150 inmates, police said.
Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia marched on Friday to the presidential palace to demand the resignation of the governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran.
Last week, quietly and without much fanfare, the 22nd global Vogue went live.
In a major test of his popularity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the first of a series of rallies yesterday as part of the election campaign in India's most populous state hoping to boost the ruling party's strength in the upper house of Parliament.
A historic mosque in India agreed on Monday (Oct 24) to scrap a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle about the restriction in the deeply religious country.
The Australian government has been accused of peddling an anti-Muslim sentiment, following the shocking results of a poll which showed almost half of Australia would support a ban on Muslim immigration.
Thai police said on Monday (Sept 5) that they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim separatists in connection with a wave of bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners.
Predominately Buddhist Thailand has opened its first halal hotel as it hopes to attract more Muslim visitors and boost one of the few bright spots in its economy.
Amid the ongoing debate on whether France should ban the Muslim swimsuit burkini, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday met clerics of the Muslim community to discuss Muslims' better integration in the secular French state.
Monday's outdoor funeral for a Muslim imam and his associate shot dead over the weekend in New York City, the largest city in the United States, drew about 1,000 mourners near a mosque in Queens Borough.
The Muslim community in France has a key role in preventing radicalization of youth attracted by online terror propaganda, but it's up to French authorities to fight terrorism at home, said Abdallah Zekri, general secretary of French Council of Muslim Faith.
International transaction card of MasterCard established on Wednesday a cooperation with HalalTrip, an online travel service for Muslim tourists and sister brand of CrescentRating, launched several innovative products to facilitate Muslims to travel.
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